Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. First, the what – what to integrate? There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. This is integration of a sort. Integration.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Ongoing maintenance is a necessity, unless you choose Drupal Gardens , an affordable solution for simple sites. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? The more people who need to contribute, the more you will need to budget for training, and the more helpful it will be to have some Drupal know-how in-house.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. (

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

That combination is impossible to beat if you need integration, ease of data movement, and a lot of customization. Closed data systems, difficult to integrate systems, or systems that require payment to get access to your data should be avoided at all cost. It is a tool that has unmatched cost-effectiveness for small organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

All technology implementors have to choose their tools (unless they run a very large shop) and we have decided to focus on implementation of both Salesforce.com and CiviCRM as CRMs, and Drupal as a CMS. Tags: CMS CRM Consulting Database technology Nonprofit Tech civcrm drupal nptech salesforce. And you can follow us on twitter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

We'll take a look at how to handle integrations between Salesforce and a trio of open source CMS solutions -- Plone, Drupal, and Joomla -- at our upcoming webinar, " Salesforce + CMS Integration Showdown: Plone, Drupal, and Joomla ". >

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2013

This leads to a lack of integrated teams and severely hinders nonprofits communications and fundraising programs because staff is not working collaboratively. Drupal migration magic with the Migrate API. Nonprofit Events nptech' Check out some of the great sessions happening at DevDay. I hate my CMS! Annie Stringer of MGH.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I’ll always be talking about CMS and CRM, and increasingly the integration between them. I’ll probably be talking a lot about Drupal. I won’t explain how or why to use twitter or facebook, unless you are trying to put a twitter stream into a Drupal page ( moving data, open source.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

And, for Drupal users, some sweet Views 2 and CCK integration. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech civicrm nptech opensource. There are some really nice usability improvements coming up in 2.3 as well - to make the basic contact pages much easier to navigate. And there is a new menu system, which will make things a lot easier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. I’m somewhat of a latecomer to Drupal. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? What CRM systems (such as Convio, Democracy in Action and so forth) do their technologies integrate with? What CRM systems have they completed recent integration projects with? Technology nptech'

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. Is it because we like hiring more senior people?

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

Free Report: 2011 Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems Report Blog Post: WordPress vs Drupal. Webinar: Salesforce + CMS Integration Showdown: Plone, Drupal, and Joomla 501 Tech Clubs Did you know that in cities across the country, NTEN supports local groups meeting every month?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Makes sense: Google would integrate puppies into their products if they thought it would help. [Ed. On this screen, I've filtered for any campaign tagged "drupal" -- from a message about a series we ran on the Drupal CMS: . Tags: Data E-mail how-to Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System) is a great option – it’s very inexpensive (you will spend less than $3/month hosting a small site with 10,000 visits/month,) and many static site generators have built-in integrations with it. That said, any standard shared hosting provider would also work.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

The system integrates tightly with common Web site content management systems with online payment and form-building functionality, like Drupal and Joomla. If you’re looking for tight donor and constituent integration with a Web site, this may be a good option, but otherwise you may find the reporting and analysis layer lacking.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

We had visitors from Drupal geeks to James Fallows at the Atlantic stop by DataMasher.org to create a custom data mash-up. Tags: Data Integration/APIs michaela hackner Newsletter NPTech NTEN sandy smith IT Staff. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

I work with our Executive Director to determine how we integrate technology into our programs and make decisions that affect the overall direction of our org. There are also Drupal conferences, NOSI conferences. Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter johanna bates accidental techie. Someday I hope to get to SXSW Interactive, too.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

And open source systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and Plone have brought these features within reach of organizations with limited budgets and staffing. . Monitor and look to integrate the interactive features, don’t add them a la carte and leave them to fend for themselves.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Frank Babbitt, Director of Integrated Operations. Bob McDiarmid, Drupal Developer. A Revolutionary Reinterpretation of the Evidence by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit. It is an exploration of Judeo-Christian symbolism and mythology to discover its origins in the traditions of shamanism. It reveals the perils of Web 3.0

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Frank Babbitt, Director of Integrated Operations. Bob McDiarmid, Drupal Developer. A Revolutionary Reinterpretation of the Evidence by Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit. It is an exploration of Judeo-Christian symbolism and mythology to discover its origins in the traditions of shamanism. Banks' Culture Series. Images: TechSoup Global.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It’s a very straightforward integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I realized that technology was a powerful agent of change, but it was not being integrated into grassroots socially progressive organizations. Technorati Tags: nptech My introduction to the nonprofit technology space occurred during my first year of law school in Oregon (1995). As is my nature, I see a problem and try to solve it.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Make sure you use the New Tracking Code (ga.js).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Happy Birthday to drupal !

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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